Improvement in hominy-mills



:(572 THEODOREHUDNUT.

Improvement in Hominy MirHs.

Patented Dec.26,1877.

` v cao UNITED STATES PATENT Mm.fp rrifeLl THEODORE HUDNUT, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HoMlNv-MILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,172, dated December 26, 1871.

` ing the cutters thereto, which said improvements I will first describe and then indicate more particularly in the claim.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the cutter-carrying shaft, the cutters, and the means employed for connecting them to said shaft or cylinder. Fig. 2 is an end elevation 5 Fig. 3 is a cross section, and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section taken on the line w .fr of Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.l

I take a long iron or steel shaft, A, of suitable length and size for the purpose, and t the wood shaft B upon it, said shaft being as much shorter than the iron shaft as is'necessary to have the latter project at each end to form the journals, C, and receive the gearing for turning it. The lsaid wood shaft is secured to the shaft A by means of the collars D, keyed to the latter and bolted to the shaft B, and it has four or more plain sides, according to the number of rows'of cutters it is to carry, each side having a metal plate, E, attached to it. These metal plates have lugs F attached to them at intervals of the same distance apart it is required to have the cutters, the said lugs being arranged lengthwise transversely ofthe plates, and those of one row are placed a short distance laterally from those of the next rows either Way, in such order that they form broken spiral rows around the shaft. The cutters, which consist of steel plates G, with the inner point of the. cutting-edges H projecting over a true circle struck from the axis of the shaft, are bolted to the arms I, between them, and these arms are bolted to the lugs F on the plates being laid across said plates tangentially, as clearly shown, so that they are coniined against turning on the b olts K by said plates. The collars D are provided with broad planoconvex disks J, which keep the grain away from the bearings and in contact with the cutters. This arrangement of the arms or holders of the cutters permits of their being'readily removed for repairing or removing the cutters.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the shaft B, plates E, lugs F, arms I, cutters Gr, and the collar D, all substantially as specilied.

The connection of the cutters Gr to the shaft B and plate E by the lugs F and arms I,`con strueted and arranged substantially as specified.

Witnesses: THEODORE HUDNUT.

WM. B. WHAnToN, JAMEsOviiRHoLTz. (57) 

